Tag Archives: Laurence Fishburne

The Amateur (2025) review — Silly but satisfying spy thriller

April 14, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by James Hawes | Written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, based on the novel by Robert Littell | 123 min | ▲▲▲ You could go looking for the first movie adaptation of the Robert Littell novel, but it's tough to find — a Canadian thriller produced by Garth Drabinksy starring John Savage, Christopher… Read More

Megalopolis review — Coppola’s grand design doesn’t add up to much

September 29, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola | 138 min | ▲▲△△△ Given both the hype and negativity around this feature — the former to do with veteran filmmaker Coppola selling one of his wineries and self-financing his long-gestating epic to the tune of $120 million US, and the latter to do with critics tarring… Read More

John Wick: Chapter 4 review — The Skyfall of the John Wick franchise

March 27, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chad Stahelski | Written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch, based on characters by Derek Kolstad | 169 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime and Crave When John Wick first found his bloody path to the big screen about a decade ago, it was a mid-budget indie action picture with a 50-year-old Keanu… Read More

Predator series review

August 5, 2022 flawintheiris

As a science-fiction series birthed out of slam-bang, macho Hollywood of the 1980s, this one falls behind The Terminator and Alien by some distance. Maybe that's because those pictures have at least two stone cold classics each, while this one, despite a number of attempts to capture the magic of the first, still rides on… Read More

All The Old Knives review — Romantic spy thriller goes to dark places

April 18, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Janus Metz | Written by Olen Steinhauer, based on his novel | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△| Crave Here's a thriller freighted with regret. Two former lovers, Henry (Chris Pine) and Celia (Thandiwe Newton), meet in Carmel, California, at a seaside resto. Eight years earlier, in 2012, they were part of a CIA unit… Read More

The Matrix Trilogy: Revisited

December 24, 2021 flawintheiris

With The Matrix: Resurrections now in cinemas, it seemed an appropriate time to go back to the original films. My 2021 reviews of those movies are below: The Matrix (1999) | Written and Directed by Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski | 136 min | Crave and VOD This is the movie that launched a million memes, internet… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

20 Best Movies on Canadian Netflix (from the 20th Century)

February 8, 2021 flawintheiris

I don't think this is a secret: Netflix doesn't carry a deep library of quality older cinema. Most folks looking to a streaming service for a classic movie are probably better off subscribing to Amazon Prime — a lot to enjoy there — or the Criterion Channel. (I'd also recommend a look at the library… Read More

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum review — John Wick kills more people

May 26, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Chad Stahelski | Written by Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams | 131 min | Crave John Wick is a hard man to kill. We've learned that from the two previous chapters in this ongoing uber-violent action tale. But John Wick isn't someone who takes much pleasure in killing others.… Read More

The Mule review — Eastwood’s still got some game

January 2, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Eastwood | Written by Nick Schenk from an article by Sam Dolnick | 116 min | Netflix Clint Eastwood is tireless. At age 88 he's still acting, directing, and producing feature films, and while he's been criticized for both his politics and his casual way with detail—the fake baby in American Sniper comes… Read More